Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, May 3rd 2018. Today,

Jowmee files for a monster IPO.

Cambridge Analytica might not be dead after all.

A whole bunch of news in the digital assistant space.

National Public Radio buys a podcast app and how stories have eaten social networking.

This is what you miss today in the world of tech. Chinese smartphone maker

maker, Jowmee, has filed for an IPO in Hong Kong. The Beijing-based company is reportedly seeking to raise

$10 billion at a $100 billion valuation.

Jowme is the world's fourth largest smartphone maker by volume,

and if it attains that $100 billion valuation,

it would become the third largest Chinese technology

company by value after 10 cent and Alibaba and its IPO would become the

15th biggest of all time. If you're not familiar with Jowmee Bloomberg has a timely profile up about the company.

It's a bit of a comeback story actually.

After bursting onto the scene in 2011, Jaalmi struggled for a time, finding strategic direction before turning things around by releasing a whole range of products,

opening Apple-like retail stores, and focusing heavily on the Indian market.

Jowme now sells more than 500 different products and services

and has 190 million customers in 70 countries.

The company booked $18 billion in sales last year and recorded 1.9 billion in profits.

Bloomberg paints Jowme CEO Lejeune as a sort of Steve Jobsian visionary crossed with a pension for micromanaging quote at a level Jeff

Bezos might envy.

Lay obsesses over pixel sizes on his phone's screens and the rainbow colors of

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